Not sure if I can agree with you on that one. Any type of music can get
"attention" by simply appealing to a specific demographic group. See:
Teenage girls, Asian-Americans, Latinos, hillbillies, ad infinitum. Perhaps
some media would lead one to believe that the only MEANINGFUL demographic
group is a select age of white males, but sales hardly reflect this.
Well, quite frankly, (at least in the US) the music doesnt
get "paid attention" to unless it is made accessible to
a wider audience/reading that to be whites....
just look at the evolution of rhythm and blues and
hip hop for example (and the money-making aspects
of those too)
Jim J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Ross Lynn IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lester Kenyatta Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: (313) To Richie's Credit (was NY Times)
>
> > And of course there is the sticky question....why is it important that
a
> > new, widespread, white, audience gets introduced to the music in the
first
> > place?
> >
>
> Because white people are just as creative potent as black ppl right?
Ideas get
> developed. Mutated. Creation occurs. Music is a collective
experience.
In
> some senses, the more the merrier, as long as there is respect (and good
> taste).
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